Microsoft and Platinum Games announced Scalebound during its E3 press conference this morning.

Directed by Bayonetta and Devil May Cry‘s Hideki Kamiya, the game transports players to a distant and hostile world, where they’ll come face to face with fearsome creatures. You’ll form a bond with a formidable dragon, which will prove crucial to the survival of both worlds.

Watch the announcement trailer below. View some artwork at the gallery.

This is interesting. Is this the third party exclusive MS was talking about?

http://youtube.com/miyabigaming 武神水樹

Probably

http://gematsu.com/ Sal Romano

Conference is over, so must be.

Luna Kazemaru

welp

BizarreJelly

Platinum <3

Solomon_Kano

Time to start saving up.

http://www.psvitadirect.com/ Kurisu Makise

Heck next month I might be able to just pull it off but do I want the Kinect bundle, that’s the question for me =/

Solomon_Kano

Yea. Even if I have the money, I’m not buying one until Sunset Overdrive hits at the earliest.

Budgiecat

get me one too dont forget…

Solomon_Kano

har

Zackasaur

Well this looks like shit. That main character is insufferable.

And loldragonborn.

I mean, maybe it will play well? But I’ll skip it no matter what with a lead character like that.

McPoo

Reminds me of Dante with Prototype armour

Zackasaur

He’s a bit lime the reboot Dante, but way worse.

And his quips were even worse than the Sonic Boom ones we heard yesterday.

So disappointing. The Dragonborn ripoff is funny, at least.

McPoo

Tbf Bayonetta was a p awful character and people liked that game.

Personally I’m not fussed about Platinum, it’s nice to see an exclusive though.

Zackasaur

Yeah, I can’t really tolerate Bayonetta, either.

But Vanquish was all right.

BlueCereal

Waiting for some gameplay.

PrinceHeir

I wonder if the gameplay will be Dragon’s Dogma x Panzer Dragoon with the speed of Platinum games?!?!

Tbh the trailer was kinda unimpressive though :

z_merquise

That would be pretty cool. And Kamiya’s a fan of old shoot-em-ups like After Burner and Space Harrier so it’s possible.

Aiddon

the only interesting thing about the MS conference. Well, except for them remembering Phantom Dust existed

Somerandomperson

This, project spark and Halo were the only interesting exclusives I found interesting. The rest of the media briefing was…not as interesting as I have anticipated.

Raiyu

Looked great, but I need to see some gameplay first.

Elvick

I’m sure the gameplay will be great, but I’m not feeling the MC. Or the ‘humor’ they are aiming for in this one.

Aiddon

yeah, the MC looks like a generic Dante caricature; Dante is AWESOME, but it seems every attempt Kamiya’s made to try and emulate him again has failed. It also doesn’t help that the best versions of Dante were from DMC 3 and 4, games that Kamiya didn’t have that big of a part in.

Zackasaur

He sucks at characters. lol

GetOffMy_Lawn

Dinosaur May Cry certainly deserves my attention (Thank you @Lenna for this glorious turn of phrase)

I follow wherever Kamiya games are, will buy Xbox One when it’s $299
But not really digging the protagonist, looks exactly like Tameem’s Dante.

bloodiOS

For me, the trailer was shockingly boring. That, together with the lack of gameplay (don’t care if pre-alpha footage or whatever) rendered the trailer utterly unable to generate any form of emotional stir within me.

EX+

A lot of the conference was CG. Major exclusives like Halo 5, Scalebound and the Crackdown reboot all got the CGI treatment.
Didn’t they say that Halo 5 would be playable at E3 2014 last year?

z_merquise

I still remember the first trailer of Vanquish was a live-action without any gameplay as well. It felt uninspiring. And look at it now, it’s the best 3rd person shooter ever (for me, at least).

I’m sure the gameplay for this new game will impress once they shown it.

PrinceHeir

Yup Yup!

I actually thought it was generic too, but boy i was wrong!

Blaz

I am jelly as fuck, but i won’t buy an XBOX1 for it, not until it greatly decreases the price-tag.

SigmaNHK

Didn’t really like the style, but I’ll wait for some gameplay. It’s Platinum though so I’ll probably buy an Xbox One for this either way.

DarthBrian

It’s hard to tell how the game plays so hard to get excited over this except that it’s a Platinum Games game.

AnimusVox

So it’s kinda like Drakengard expect….hm….

Crossbones (Prodigy-X)

This definitely made their conference good/

MrKappa

Not digging the Donte-like character here and no gameplay leaves me with nothing to care about for now.

Aiddon

I was gonna say, if you’re ape a design, why Donte?

miyamoto

I think its not Dante but Neil Patrick Harris that inspired this character.

badmoogle

He looks like a cross between Donte and Joffrey from GoT.Terrible character design.

Sony doesn’t care about Platinum, they go where people are willing to support them.

Budgiecat

and then the consumers don’t support their games lol

PrinceHeir

Want to see more gameplay videos :D

Though i hope Sony makes a deal with Platinum so they can have their own exclusive game just like what MS and Nintendo have.

Glad lots of companies are approaching Platinum Games though!!

http://gematsu.com/ Sal Romano

My favorite announcement of the day so far.

AdamBoy64

Looks pretty neat.
Hopefully we’ll get some more footage soon.

FitzpatrickPhillips

Donte Hunter

Kobracon

Wow that was short. WAY too short. Must be really REALLY early in development, but looks interesting. Medievel Fantasy setting but main character has headphones? lol oh Kamiya. Power Ranger armor AND dragon riding? HELL YEAH

I agree with the designs though, it does look a little bland and westernized, but hey, I have faith in Kamiya to provide a drop dead fun game.

罪罰

Dragoon Zetman Crisis May Cry
Kamiya you friggin genius.
I guess I have to buy Xbone now.

Blaz

What crappy games are you talking about?

Aiddon

which is sad because MS should focus on their OWN stuff, not advertising 3rd party stuff FOR them. I realize relations and all, but we’ll be getting Ubisoft and EA conferences anyway, so why bother with it other than to pad out the running time?